Michael Stone

Current

CEO at Amethon Solutions

Past

Business Development Consultant at MAP Venture Partners
General Manager at Ericsson Australia
Sales Manager at Ericsson Australia

Solutions Manager at Ericsson Australia
Engineer Class 2 at Department of Defence

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Education

RMIT University
University of Canberra

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Connections

478 connections

Industry

Telecommunications

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Michael Stone’s Summary

An excellent communicator and relationship builder with a broad range of IT startup and telecommunications industry experience including executive and general management, sales management, business development, marketing and solution management. This includes dealing with investors and boards, customers at all levels including senior executives across technology, engineering, marketing and finance areas as well as managing teams of more than 100 sales, consulting and design staff.

Michael Stone’s Specialties:

Strategic Sales Methodologies
Corporate Strategy
Change Management

Michael Stone’s Experience

CEO

Amethon Solutions

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

September 2006 — Present (3 years 4 months)

Amethon Solutions is an emerging, VC funded developer of mobile analytics solutions focused on the mobile advertising and marketing industry. Reporting to the board of directors, this role is responsible for the overall management of the company with a specific focus on corporate strategy and business development.

Since taking over the role, the company has:
- Increased its overall gross margins from approximately 5% to around 45%
- Successfully divested non-core SMS gateway business to raise capital and increase focus on analytics platforms
- Acquired and re-purposed the IP assets of Aimstats Pty Ltd which has positioned Amethon at the forefront of the nascent mobile web analytics industry
- Secured commercial deployments of both of our products (Content Fingerprinting and Mobile Analytics) in Australia and the US
- Completed a number of fund raising rounds
Business Development Consultant

MAP Venture Partners

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

July 2006 — September 2006 (3 months)

Assisting small, emerging high tech companies to develop relationships and secure business with the established players in the Telecommunications Industry.
General Manager

Ericsson Australia

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ERICY; Telecommunications industry)

July 2004 — July 2006 (2 years 1 month)

General Manager for Ericsson's Advise services business area comprising business consulting, network design and education.
Sales Manager

Ericsson Australia

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ERICY; Telecommunications industry)

December 2000 — June 2004 (3 years 7 months)

Overall Ericsson sales lead for Vodafone Australia and Vodafone New Zealand's 3G network business.
Solutions Manager

Ericsson Australia

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ERICY; Telecommunications industry)

August 1996 — December 2000 (4 years 5 months)

Overall technical lead for a number of 3G bids including Hutchison Australia (3) and Optus.
Engineer Class 2

Department of Defence

(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Military industry)

January 1990 — January 1991 (1 year 1 month)